Marlins’ Sanabia Gets Away with Clear Spitball

Not clear in the sense that his phlegm is clear because his allergies aren’t an issue; clear in the sense that seconds after Domonic Brown hit a home run, Sanabia hocked a loogie on the baseball in plain view of the cameras.

According to the rulebook, which these days is used more as a guideline than anything, it says:

Rule 8.02: The pitcher shall not — (2) expectorate on the ball, either hand or his glove;

We’ve seen enough scrub pitchers baffle this team this year to know that an occasional spitball isn’t the issue. He should probably be suspended, but let’s not kid ourselves…they didn’t lose because of that.

Only 4-4 against the worst team in the NL that can’t score against anyone but us. More dumb baseball last night…not covering 1B, misplaying flyballs, not hustling, plus a terrible bullpen. This team stinks.

So what if the Phils have a bad offense? What Sanabia did is against the rules and he should have been tossed, even if he only did it once in disgust. Cheating is cheating.

Tossing him early could have changed the entire game. Getting into a team’s bullpen is generally regarded as a positive thing.

I think everyone must have been sleeping or watching some busty woman in the first row, because the Phils should have made an issue of this immediately. Wasn’t anyone on the bench paying any attention?

The next pitch he threw after the Brown home run was a FB sinker for a ball, and the one after that Delmon Young hit pretty hard to Ruggiano for an out. I wonder if he was doing it the whole game.

I don’t ever condone cheating, but you gotta admit, if there is ever a good time spit on a ball, it’s when the other team is celebrating a home run. You’d think the umpires would be trained to watch in that situation.

Wow .Talk about denaial. With some rare exceptions, this lineup has been dominated by everyone. Like Rudy said- guess they are all throwing spitballsl. But only against the Phillies, since must of the scrubs that dominate the
PHillies can’t get anybody else in the league out.

It’s not being a crybaby when one is simply reporting what someone did. Nowhere did Pat say it cost the Phils the game or even an out. It’s not even being a tattletale, because everyone (except maybe the idiot umpires) have been pointing out Sanabia’s disgusting and unsanitary behavior, too.